![]() If you loved the original series, you'll be shocked and appalled with how deliberately they've gone about damaging the franchise. As a spirit, she retains her original appearance but is blue and transparent. Eldress is a tall and beautiful woman with tan-colored skin, white hair, and wears golden armor and a headress that holds her hair up, and a gown-like piece around her waist. He-Man and Skeletor themselves come to a complete stalemate as their stock footage attacks simply statically bpress up against each other in an anticlimax as nothing much happens. Eldress is a supporting character in Netflix's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and the former Sorceress of Castle Grayskull. There's a not-insignificant amount of stock footage as everyone transforms, and as they fight through stock footage attacks like any super-warrior anime. Cringer at least *should* transform into Battle Cat, but there is no excuse for the other abominations they've shoehorned into this mess. Everybody's special, everybody's magical, He-Man isn't the hero, he's just one of several little kids who are all equally powerful. Why is everybody wearing sneakers? Yet another deliberate undermining and desecration of the source material to "include" everybody for literally no reason. Supergirl vet Melissa Benoist is flying into Netflix’s animated He-Man series continuation, Masters of the Universe: Revolution, as the voice of Teela, TVLine has learned. ![]() They had to gender-swap, race-swap, and give everybody He-Man's power so that he wasn't special any more. Without it, they don’t have a show.They couldn't just let He-Man just be He-Man. In any case, the cosmology of Eternia is insignificant beside the question, Why should I care? Because whatever else Smith and his team might manage to do, however artful and period-accurate the animation, they rely on that initial hook of nostalgia. Somehow or other Adam’s magical sword is the key to restoring magic to their world. Where is He-Man?Įventually most of them find their way to the underworld, and from there to Valhalla-Light, where Prince Adam does seem to be enjoying mead in the company of other warriors, though there are no Valkyries serving it to them. There are some fights, and Teela does a bit of sulking here and there over having so much responsibility. Somewhere along the line Man-at-Arms and Orko show up, bearing magical water. Skeletor’s right-hand woman, Evil-Lyn, who also wants magic back, sets her dread staff aside and pitches in. With magic slowly draining away, the world and the universe don’t have long to last. Teela accepts a quest to restore magic to the planet of Eternia, and it treats us to a cosmological lesson that shows how magic (which goes undefined) is the source of all energy and life in the universe. This is where Smith and company get into murky waters. And from there on through the rest of the five episodes out of 10 so far available to watch, it’s Teela’s show. Teela rejects her brand-new title and sets out on her own, having had enough of weakling princes who conceal their secret identities from her. Having managed to preserve just enough of a spark of magic to keep their planet from winking out of existence, Adam/He-Man disappears, along with his antagonist, Skeletor. Soon enough, though, that battle is done, and despite the efforts of Teela and of He-Man himself, something has all but stripped magic from the world of Eternia. Netflixs new He-Man series is a sleek update to the 1980s cartoon. In any case, he starts off the show with a typical battle scene, cross-cut with a ceremony to bestow Teela with the title of Man-At-Arms. Maybe he just knows what will sell these days. Maybe showrunner Kevin Smith, director and writer of the worst movie I’ve ever seen in the theater, wanted to get on the bandwagon and make amends for Harvey Weinstein financing most of his movies. No choppy sword-fights, no stilted dialogue: just a couple of girls professing their love for each other. ![]() The recent Netflix series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power ignored He-Man altogether, instead going with Anime-style animation to work its way up to a kiss between two female characters as its climax. ![]() This isn’t the first time the universe of Eternia has been subjected to one sort of revisionism or another. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. This is a revision, an updating of the Masters’ concerns to match those of the 21st century’s mainstream. But however much the choppily-animated action sequences might pay homage to the original series, it doesn’t take even all of the first episode for it to become clear that there’s something else at work here. Sure, we have the same characters from the early 1980s cartoon back for more adventure: Prince Adam and his alter-ego He-Man, his evil antagonist Skeletor, beautiful and dangerous Captain of the Royal Guard Teela, bumbling magician Orko, and so on. It’d be easy to call Netflix’s new Masters of the Universe: Revelation show an exercise in He-Man nostalgia, but that’s just its surface.
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